Rocky Horror is back on Broadway for only the third time in 50 years, and it's a scream. It's also queerer than ever and horny AF. I'm sure that I haven't been alone in shivering with antici...pation, ever since last March when Roundabout Theatre Company announced that their revival of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror... Continue Reading →
It’s astounding! Roundabout’s Rocky Horror Show Broadway revival reveals full cast
Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the complete cast for Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show directed by Sam Pinkleton, a Tony-winner for his work on Cole Escola's Oh, Mary! Roundabout Theatre Company announces the cast for Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show on Broadway directed by Sam Pinkleton. Joining the previously announced British Independent Film... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Maybe Happy Ending (Belasco Theatre, Broadway) ★★★★★
Four decades from now on the outskirts of Seoul, South Korea, the handsome and immaculately groomed Oliver (Darren Criss) spends his days contentedly confined to his stylish but tiny single-room apartment. He one-sidedly converses with his houseplant, HwaBoon (a far more amicable herbage than the man-eater Criss encountered Off-Broadway in Little Shop of Horrors), listens... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Tammy Faye (The Palace Theatre, Broadway) ★★★1/2
Following the 2000 documentary The Eyes of Tammy Faye, produced by World of Wonder and narrated by RuPaul, and the 2021 narrative feature adaptation of the same name that won Oscars for lead actress Jessica Chastain and the film's makeup and hairstyling, the tantalizing tale of televangelist Tammy Faye Messner (formerly Bakker) is now on... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Seann Miley Moore stars in Miss Saigon at Sydney Opera House “there’s big Asian energy on the stage right now”
One of Australia’s most prominent nonbinary performers, Seann Miley Moore continues to make their fabulous mark on television—they've appeared on both The X-Factor in the UK and Australia's The Voice—and on stage—most recently earning rave reviews as Angel in Rent at the Sydney Opera House. A headliner at Sydney WorldPride earlier this year, their most... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: White Girl In Danger (Tony Kiser Theater, Off-Broadway) ★★★★
The soap opera at the heart of Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning A Strange Loop creator Michael R. Jackson's uproarious new Off-Broadway musical, that gives the show its title and catchy recurring theme song, White Girl In Danger, is set in the town of "Allwhite" and features a story that is "Allwhite", as the opening... Continue Reading →
Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics launches Dorian Theater Awards to honor Broadway & Off-Broadway
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced this week that it is expanding its mission to honor Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, across a variety of inaugural categories, beginning with the 2022-2023 theater season. Following GALECA’s established Dorian film and TV honors, its Dorian Theater Awards will celebrate both mainstream and LGBTQ+ themed productions. While... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Titanique (Daryl Roth Theatre, New York) ★★★★
As I prepared to step aboard the good ship Titanique (currently docked at New York's Daryl Roth Theatre), I had a sinking feeling—not due to a fear of icebergs—but because I thought I'd already seen enough Off-Broadway comedy musicals to last for a lifetime. Turns out this one is different. It's a loving parody of... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: A Strange Loop star Antwayn Hopper “I’m drawn to raw emotion, real-life storytelling”
Topeka, Kansas-raised Obie Award-winning actor Antwayn Hopper is currently starring on Broadway as Thought 6 in Michael R. Jackson's exhilaratingly meta musical, A Strange Loop. Hopper has been part of the ensemble cast for six years during the show's development ahead of its Tony-winning Broadway run, including appearing in the 2019 Playwrights Horizons Theater production,... Continue Reading →
GLAAD Awards Exclusive Interview: Michael R. Jackson on writing A Strange Loop “I felt misunderstood, unseen & unheard”
A Strange Loop became the most Tony Award-nominated production of the season today, receiving 11 nominations including Best Musical. On Friday night the show's Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, composer and lyricist, Michael R. Jackson, gave a powerful and moving performance of Memory Song from the musical on stage at the 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Ahead... Continue Reading →
